ups and downs

We have had a crazy week with Lewis' first real illness. After weaning him about 6 weeks ago, it didn't take long for him to get a nasty cold that turned into an ear infection and the croup! Lewis is now on antibiotics and some other drugs to kick this thing from his system. My doctor put me on an antibiotic as well. It has been rather rough here at times.

On the flip side, Lewis is the happiest sick toddler we've ever seen. He's still running around in good form and enjoying himself most of the time. He's starting to get his appetite back some too. (Sidenote: He even ate his first brownie today once the drugs started kicking in. He loved it!) We had to cancel his therapy session today with Krista, his developmental interventionist, who works on his mobility issues. She has been wanting us to work on getting him to sit up from a laying position, but also just to sit on his own (which he does a lot, but often prefers standing all day long!). He has never laid down on his own, aside from falling, but tonight he put himself through quite a work out, diving on the floor and then spinning around until finally standing at the end. Maybe it's the drugs doing their thing, but I took a video because he did this over and over and it was rather humorous.



After all of this, we got out a book called "Elmo's Twelve Days of Christmas." Lewis loves Elmo and looks forward to watching the Elmo's World portion of Sesame Street most mornings. We have been trying to teach him to point, or at least touch, items he sees in books. Elmo was featured on each page of this book with other characters and Lewis was able to touch Elmo on almost every page! This felt like a huge breakthrough because sometimes he starts turning pages so quickly it seems like he doesn't even see what is there. This might be my best Christmas present this year.

The other blessing recently is that Lewis is loving brushing his teeth. It was kind of a fight for a while, but he really gets excited now and we have to coax him to give up his toothbrush so he can go to bed.





















It is horrible to see Lewis going through his first illness, but there's so much good stuff coming out too. We can't complain!